One of the most wanted factors in a daily use software is the ability to 
be opened in a lightning speed. Download many e-book in .pdf format and read them frequently? You might feel that the loading process that Adobe Reader took to load the file is quite long. The cause is, the software takes more cpu cycles to load plugins that let us do various functions. So, if you want to speed things up you can try to use this method:
1) Browse into Adobe Acrobat Reader’s program folder. Example:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0
2) Open ‘plugins’ folder, select all (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+A) and cut (Ctrl+X) the files to a backup folder. The idea is to let ‘plugins’ folder to be empty so that the additional features won’t load.
Test and see the result. This trick should work for Adobe Acrobat 8 or 7. via Amanz.net
August 1st, 2007 at 5:41 am
WOW! This looks like a really cool trick. Will try and do it on my home PC. It takes ages to open PDF files.
August 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 am
there are faster way to do so. much much faster in fact. uninstall adobe acrobat, donwload foxit reader, blazing fast compare to adobe. i never use adobe ever since.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 am
shutterspeaks: That’s correct. I’ve tried both normal and portable version of Foxit Reader and they work great..
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
I agree with shutterspeaks. Foxit has a smaller footprint compared to Adobe
August 15th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Nice one! Now I need to stop Adobe from loading into my excel, word, and ie windows also!
November 1st, 2007 at 1:56 pm
ya kind of slow when trying to open it. i will try your tips. hopefully it would work. thanks.
February 15th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I just use a lightweight version of adobe to view PDF’s, I rarely need the full functionality of adobe and it’s slow even with mods like these.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
this worked for me, thanks
June 12th, 2008 at 4:47 am
had little from a bit of crashing down friends I assumed suggested community
July 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I don’t think opening PDFs are that slow, then again I am not opening huge books. Though some of the files we get can get pretty big.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:27 am
I will surely try this. There is a doubt. What about the Adobe updates? Will it refill the folder when it finds nothing there?